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Graduate Teaching Assistant (1996-1998), University of Missouri-Kansas City

Courses Taught:

The Sixties Experience in America

America in World War II

History of Missouri

Administration of Historic Sites

Problems in Historic Preservation

Introduction to Public History

Cold War America, 1945-1962

The Missing Decade: America in the 1970s

The Best Years?: America in the 1950s

Perspectives on the American Dream; Mass Media, Culture, and Society

United States Survey II

Graduate Readings in Cold War Era America

Graduate Readings in American Social History

Public History Experience

2001-present: Assistant Director, Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage,
Southeast Missouri State University. As the public "outreach" arm of the Department
of History, the Center documents, preserves, and presents local and regional history;
architectural trends; archeology; ethnic and folk traditions. The Center offers a
variety of consultative services and assistance to museums, historical societies,
schools, and city, county, state, and national agencies.

1999-2001 Assistant Curator, Johnson County Museums, Shawnee, KS. Conducting research
and writing interpretative materials for exhibits, collections, publications and programs.
As a member of the Exhibit Team, developing storylines, scripts and artifact checklists
and coordinating exhibit production.

1999 Supervisor, Historical Preservation Survey, Johnson County Museums. Directing
staff in surveying pre-1950 structures in Johnson County in accordance with Heritage
Trust Fund grant specifications. Researching and writing comprehensive reviews and
State and National Register of Historic Places nominations.

Book Publications

A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: the Life of Louis Houck. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008)

Bonnie Stepenoff and Joel P. Rhodes, eds. Movers and Shakers in the Missouri Bootheel: Essays From the Missouri Historical Review,
1906-2006. (Columbia, MO: The State Historical Society of Missouri, forthcoming in 2009).

Articles, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries

Joel P. Rhodes and Judson L. Jeffries, "Detroit," in Judson L. Jeffries, ed. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America. (Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, under contract)

49th Annual Missouri Conference on History, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.
Louis, MO, April 2007, “‘A Damn Fine Lawyer’: The Cape Girardeau Railroad War Between
Louis Houck and the House of Gould”

Friends of the Missouri State Archives Lecture Series, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson
City, MO, June 2010, “A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: the Life of Louis Houck”

Southeast Missouri State University, Kent Library Athenaeum Series, February 2011,
“In a Land Called Honalee: The Sixties in the Lives of American Children”

Southeast Missouri State University, Department of Political Science, Philosophy,
and Religion Constitution Day Health Care Forum, September 2009, “Parallels Between
the Establishment of Medicare and the Current Health Care Reform”

100 Year Anniversary of the NAACP, NAACP Cape Girardeau Branch, March 2009, “Interracial
History of the NAACP”